I started a newsletter called Smoke Signals: https://smokesignals.sharonchin.com! It’s a brand new home for the Blog and News sections of this site. I’ve been blogging (never as regularly as I liked) about my art practice on here for more than ten years. The site has become wild and sprawling, and updating it has felt like… Read more
Happy and excited to announce I’m part of the cohort for the Prince Claus Fund 2023 Mentorship Award for Cultural & Artistic Responses to the Environmental Crisis. I’ll be focusing on artistic responses and community organizing in Port Dickson. Read more
I’m honored to say a few words and read a poem at the book launch of ‘Salleh Ben Joned: Truth, Beauty, Amok and Belonging’ by Anna Salleh. Featuring the author in conversation with Malachi Edwin Vethamani, as well as special guests: Antares Maitreya, Jack Malik, Kee Thuan Chye, Sabera Shaik, Sharon Chin and Ramli Ibrahim. With music by Hady Afro. 8pm – 11pm, 1 Dec 2023, CULT Gallery. Read more
I will be giving an online talk for Afterall’s Afterschool programme ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’. Thurs, 9 Nov 2023, 7pm – 9pm (Malaysia time) / 11am – 1pm (UK time). Registration required! Read more
This Sat, 2 May 2020 at 8pm (GMT+8 Malaysian Time) I will be live on INXO Arts and Culture’s online talk series Arts Beyond Distance. Join me on Facebook Live or Youtube Live. Read more
I will be taking over Ilham Gallery’s Instagram for the weekend, 18 – 19 April 2020. Read more
The author and illustrator of ‘Creatures of Near Kingdoms’, Zedeck Siew & Sharon Chin will share about how moving from the city to a smaller town brought them closer to animals and plants; at the same time, landed them 200m away from an oil refinery. Read more
As part of Ipoh International Art Festival 2019, I will be running a workshop titled ‘Chained to Plastic: The Unmanageable Waste’, exploring how the current plastic crisis is being fueled by the oil and gas industry. Date: 30 Nov and 1 Dec 2019 Time: 10am – 12pm Venue: Muzium Darul Ridzuan, Ipoh Also, for the… Read more
